Box Score

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The Illinois Wesleyan women's soccer team, who led 3-1 at halftime, battled nationally-ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater to a 3-3 tie through two overtimes at IWU's Neis Field on Wednesday, Oct. 9.

The Titans, who have a seven game unbeaten streak, are 8-1-3 while Wisconsin-Whitewater is 9-0-3. The Warhawks are ranked No. 21 in this week's National Soccer Coaches Association poll and are No. 18 in the D3soccer.com poll.

The Titans struck first at the 7:44 mark as freshman Amanda Kaiser scored on a strike from six yards away on a cross from senior Tillie Bill.
The Warhawks evened the score at 1-1 when Carly Pottle scored from the penalty mark on an assist from Brianna Reed.

Freshman Skyler Tomko scored a pair of goals in a two-minute span that extended the IWU lead to 3-1. Her first came at 36:58 and her second was at 38:45, both on assists from Bill.

In the second half, Whitewater got a tally back on a goal from Reid at 49:54 on an assist from Jessica Allemang to make it 3-2 IWU and Kaitlyn Fritsch scored the equalizer at 75:56 from inside the box.

The three assists by Bill ties an IWU single game record set twice by Lindsay O'Brien – once against North Central (Oct. 9, 2004) and at Principia (Oct. 11, 2005).

IWU keeper Zoie Samaan made three saves and Jordan Myers had six for UWW. The Titans outshot Whitewater, 14-11.

What's Next?
Illinois Wesleyan hosts another nationally-ranked team as Augustana from the College Conference of Illinois and Wsconsin faces IWU at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, for the Homecoming game at Neis Field.